Mbappe and Neymar in race to be fit to face Liverpool
And Mbappe has a shoulder contusion after falling heavily in France's 1-0 win over Uruguay at the Stade de France. Brazil won the match with Neymar's replacement, Richarlison, scoring the only goal a minute before half-time.

Cavs announce JR Smith will no longer be around the team
Smith is in his 15th season and making $14.7 million; he has no relationship with Cavs GM Koby Altman and doesn't want a buyout. With Smith gone, the Cavaliers have just three players - Love, Tristan Thompson and Channing Frye - left from their title team.

Supreme Court asked to block appointment of Whitaker as AG
Sessions had been recused from overseeing the Russian Federation investigation because of his role as a Trump campaign surrogate. One of the three senators, Sheldon Whitehouse , accused Trump of installing his "lackey" to undermine the Mueller probe.

1 dead, 2 others hurt after Alabama mall shooting
Joiner said she heard six or seven shots and was ordered, along with some other shoppers, into a supply closet for cover. We already had multiple officers working at the mall for traffic control and police presence inside, " he said.

Nick Jonas en route to India for wedding with Priyanka Chopra
Brother Siddharth Chopra and cousin Parineeti Chopra along with other members of the Chopra family could be seen in this image. "After Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh's nuptials, all eyes are now on Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas " wedding.

White House plays down climate report's alarming findings

The press release on the report says: "One of the key messages that comes out very strongly from this report is that we are already seeing the consequences of 1C of global warming through more extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice, among other changes", said Panmao Zhai, co-chair of IPCC Working Group I.

President Donald Trump is rejecting a central conclusion of a dire report on the economic costs of climate change released Friday by his own administration.

The National Climate Assessment, the fourth edition of a congressionally mandated report on climate change, noted that disasters caused by weather are becoming more common.

It says warming-charged extremes 'have already become more frequent, intense, widespread or of long duration.' The report also notes the last few years have smashed US records for damaging weather, costing almost $400 billion since 2015.

"In light of the report's findings, it's critical that federal, state and local governments take aggressive action to protect USA residents by both reigning in emissions and helping communities adapt to the climate impacts that are now inevitable", said Brenda Ekwurzel, the director of climate science at the Union of Concerned Scientists and one of the study's authors.

Reporters questioned the timing of this year's release, which came on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a national holiday when many people are traveling and shopping. It also details how people's health and different parts of the economy are being hurt. The federal report reinforces these findings, although its focus is primarily on the US.

Last year he appeared to be confused over news that it could be the coldest New Year's on record, tweeting that the country could use a little bit of global warming. The report stressed that human activity has caused droughts, storms, and flooding.

Then there was this from the report: "Global average temperature has increased by about 1.8 [degrees] from 1901 to 2016, and observational evidence does not support any credible natural explanations for this amount of warming". Asked about severe economic impacts, he said, "I don't believe it".

But even as the Trump administration has sought to downplay climate science, claiming it is exaggerated or rejecting it as a hoax - as Trump himself has done repeatedly - it has never presented an alternative body of science that challenges the key findings laid out in the report, which builds on research conducted around the world.

Several of its authors say the National Climate Assessment was rushed to release weeks before it was to be unveiled at an annual conference of the American Geophysical Union.